Etiene Dalcol

Lua has many different implementations and derived languages (among others, these include LuaJIT, TypedLua, Starlight, Ravi, Terra and Moonscript). In this talk we'll compare standard Lua with the popular LuaJIT, known especially for its speed. Th...Read more

NodeMCU is an open hardware IoT platform based on eLua for the ESP8266 microcontroller. It allows creating low-cost projects using Wi-Fi and easy scripting in Lua, which makes it great for making wearables, for example. In this talk I'll give an i...Read more

Lua is a very fast and powerful scripting language that can be easily embeddable. It has been shining in industries like game development, for example. Lua is also an excellent tool as a general purpose language and can be used to develop robust a...Read more

Topics covered on this talk are: - Why Javascript is an appropriate introductory language to programming, versus popular teaching choices such as Python - How programming workshops empower and inspire learners - How this experience contributed to ...Read more

This talk will present what makes Lua different from other scripting languages, the latest changes of the 5.3 version, the evolution of the Lua ecosystem, the LuaRocks package manager and show you why Lua is the next language to add to your skill ...Read more

Lua is a very fast and powerful scripting language that can be easily embeddable. It has been shining in industries like game development, for example. Lua is also an excellent tool as a general purpose language and can be used to develop robust a...Read more

Lua is a very fast and powerful scripting language that can be easily embeddable. It has been shining in industries like game development, for example. Lua is also an excellent tool as a general purpose language and can be used to develop robust a...Read more

Lua's use in web tools, despite its great potential, is not yet widespread. Having had experience as a web programmer, and aiming to learn more about this language, I started a marathon that produced an MVC framework completely written in Lua, cal...Read more

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Etiene is a Brazilian software engineer based in London, working for Red Badger. She is a very active member in the Lua language community, leading an open source web framework called Sailor, organising the Lua devroom on FOSDEM, Lua Conf and the Lua community blog.